pharisaic
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A majority of American Jews today are unaffiliated with the synagogues the Pharisaic rabbis emphasized, and yet 79 percent report feeling "very positive" about being Jewish.
From Slate • Nov. 9, 2012
Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later on it becomes a specific Pharisaic doctrine, “Everything is foreseen.”
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
Pharaoh, 55 Pharisaic and Pharisees, 12, 20, 189, 233 f.,
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
As the former work is derived from a variety of Pharisaic writers in Palestine, so the latter in its present form was written for the most part by Hellenistic Jews in Egypt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing pharisaic
